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Anybody who’s ever exposed any service to the internet knows this as the “background radiation” of the net. My boxes get thousands of random connection attempts per day. The best practice for years has been to use keypairs and/or VPNs. Friends don’t let friends expose RDP to the web.
I had a website exposed to the net and would constantly get http requests for things like “wordpress_admin.js”